MICT

• Director
  • Prof. dr. Lieven De Marez
• Research Coordinator
  • Evelien De Waele-De Guchtenaere
• Professors & Senior Researchers
  • Prof. dr. Gino Verleye
  • Prof. dr. Steve Paulussen
  • Prof. dr. Jan Van Looy
  • Prof. dr. Pieter Verdegem
• Researchers
  • dr. Isabelle Stevens
  • dr. Laurence Hauttekeete
  • Elke Boudry
  • Cédric Courtois
  • Dimitri Schuurman
  • Jeroen Stragier
  • Katrien De Moor
  • Peter Mechant
  • Tom Evens
• Junior Researchers
  • Anissa All
  • Constantijn Seys
  • Evelien D'heer
  • Frederik De Grove
  • Hadewijch Vanwynsberghe
  • Jan Decock
  • Karel Verbrugge
  • Lotte Vermeulen
  • Malte Elson
  • Melanie De Vocht
• Research & Teaching Assistents
  • Lynn De Vlieger
• Practitioner Assistents
  • David Verbruggen
  • Laurence Claeys
• Affiliated Members
  • Prof. dr. Els De Bens
  • Prof. dr. Erik Dejonghe
  • Prof. Eric Van Heesvelde
  • Katrien Berte
  • Noel Klein-Reesink, M.A.

Peter Mechant

Biography

Peter is a master in communication sciences. He studied several scripting and programming languages during and after his university studies at Ghent University. Peter worked until June 2005 as an ICT-project coordinator at an e-business firm.

After joining research group MICT, Peter has been mainly working  on IBBT-research projects focusing on e-culture, social software and online communities. Peter is working on a PhD that wants to explain how and why people use social software. This work-in-progress wants to focus on the experience of digital or virtual culture through social software and has special attention for the interaction processes between social software users and digital (cultural) documents or artifacts.

Projects

Here you'll find an overview of projects that Peter Mechant is involved with:

• SMARTiP
• CocoNut BIS

Publications

List of publications for Peter Mechant:

• Courtois, C.; Mechant, P.; De Marez, L. (2011). Teenage Uploaders on YouTube: Networked Public Expectancies, Online Feedback Preference and Received On-Platform. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking (in press).
• Hauttekeete, L.; Berte, K.; Mechant, P. et al. (2010) Using Web2.0 to Support the Independent Film Production. Film & Film Culture, 5, p. 134-156.
• Mechant, P. (2009)  A patchwork of online community-based systems: can social software be used to augment online individual social capital?  Observatorio (OBS), 3(1).
• Courtois, C., Mechant, P., De Marez, L. & Verleye G. (2009). Gratifications and seeding behavior of online adolescents. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 15 (1), p. 109-137.

All publications on http://biblio.ugent.be/person/801001982291